Mirror and upside down images

Inverted and corrected ears.After this stamp has been issued, it was discovered that the poor man had inverted ears. Fortunately for him, the stamp has been corrected.(AUSTRIA - 1934)

Wrong British flag.The wrongly positioned narrow and wide white stripes on the Union Jack were corrected when this stamp was reissued.(JAMAICA - 1921)

Dangerous bus.Look carefully at the yellow bus. It is obvious that the front side of the bus is left. Which means that the doors have been drawn on the left side of the bus. In that way, people have to enter and leave the bus in the middle of the road !(GERMANY - 1965)

Inverted year !Postmark with inverted year 2000(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 2000)

Inverted crossInverted German cross on the tail of this plane(GERMANY - 1944)

Upside downThe strange position of this athlete became clear when it appeared that he had been depicted upside down. (DUBAI - )

Inverted city nameInverted left part with city name.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - )

Inverted figuresThis letter was of course sent in 1950, not in 1590 !(ISRAEL - )

Reprint or fake ?Reprint of a famous error : the inverted Jenny. Still two or three centuries to wait, and there will be no difference anymore with the really expensive ones.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - )

Make your own errorStamp printed in two steps, only 400 copies exist with an inverted centre. It is very easy to make your own forgery : take two cheap normal stamps, carefully cut the blue centerpart of one of them, and glue it upside down on the other stamp !(CANADA - 1959)

Inverted DendermondeOnly 1 sheet of 25 stamps was misprinted, with an inverted centerpart. One of the most expensive Belgian stamps. This one of course is unfortunately a forgery, made out of two cheap normal stamps. (BELGIUM - 1920)

Inverted year !Inverted year in postmark(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1955)

Inverted pianoReversed grand piano - the large side has to be at the left side where the bass notes are.(FUJEIRA - 1971)

Reversed designNot only the portrait of Queen Victoria has been reversed comparing to the original photograph, also the figure 1 in the right upper corner. (NEWFOUNDLAND - )

Inverted overprintInverted overprint : the old value of the stamp is still visible.(BELGIAN CONGO - )

Inverted overprintInverted overprint(BELGIAN CONGO - )

Upside downThe green earth lies on top, this plane is flying upside down… Not a common view for a stamp, as the only place where you can see such a view, is from another plane, also flying upside down !(CANADA - 1981)

Upside downFDC with a small photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt. After it had been discovered that the photo was printed upside down, a corrected FDC was issued.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1945)

At least three errorsRight below : SIDNEY instead of SYDNEY - Above : VAN DIEMAN instead of VAN DIEMEN - Right below : the opera building and the bridge are reversed in the stamp (TONGA - 1988)

Inverted portraitWest and East Germany, both issued a stamp to commemorate Thomas MANN. As can be seen by the haircut, on one of those stamps however, the portrait was inverted.(GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 1956)

Inverted portrait - wrong birthyearThe sculptor J.F. BOSIA was pictured twice on stamps from Monaco : the same portrait was used, but was inverted on one of the stamps. And on one stamp, 1769 is wrongly shown as his year of birth : the sculptor was born in 1768 ! (MONACO - 1948-68)

Inverted valueAs the value in arabic scripture appeared to be inverted, a corrected stamp was issued.(PAKISTAN - )

Inverted portraitThe haircut cleaarly shows that the portrait of Franz Josef II was inverted on one of those stamps. (LIECHTENSTEIN - 1939)

Inverted portraitsBoth portraits were inverted on those stamps.(DENMARK - 1924)

Inverted 2The 2 in local scripture was inverted on the 12-K stamp. Look at the 20-K stamp to see a correct 2(LAO - 1958)

Inverted portraitBoth stamps featuring Shakespeare used the same portrait, however inverted on one of the stamps.(UNITED KINGDOM - 1964)

Partly invertedOn a printing plate, the stamp has to be inverted. The engraver started correctly, but changed his mind in the middle of the word SVERIGE(SWEDEN - 1991)

Inverted jacketInverted portrait as for men the left part of a jacket always closes above the right part.(MONACO - 1956)

Wrong hand ?Raise your right hand and swear …. And not your left hand ! Except in Argentina, where they do the opposite.(ARGENTINA - 1946)

Inverted abbeyWestminster abbey was shown inverted on a stamp issued by Ajman. An English stamp shows the correct representation.(AJMAN - )

Inverted letterThe engraver forgot to invert the letter Z in his own name !(LUXEMBOURG - 1956)

Inverted centerpieceWhen the second colour was printed, the paper was put upside down, resulting in an inverted centrepiece. (ARMENIA - 1922)

Upside-down pictureCover picturing the famous Old Crooked Bridge in Hendrysburg, Ohio. The cover was reprinted when it was discovered that the picture had been printed upside down.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1932)

Inverted flagAirmailstamp with inverted French flag (red color at the left side instead of blue).(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1989)

Two left shoesThe buckles of ski boots buckle outward on both feet. This means that the skier on this stamp has two left boots(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1998)

Wrong flagThe 1st stamp of the 4th row of this sheet shows the flag of the State Tennessee, with inverted centerpiece.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1976)

Wrong location and … invertedThis stamp depicting a view of the Grand Canyon located in Arizona was first issued mentioning Colorado instead of Arizona. Only after the stamp had been corrected and issued, another error appeared : the complete scene was printed inverted. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1999)

Inverted colourWhen one sheet was discoverd with an inverted yellow colour, the US post office decided to print the same number of wrong stamps to avoid speculation.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1962)

Inverted monogramThe monogram of Dürer in the lower right corner has been inverted.(ANTIGUA - 1980)

Inverted stars.Inverted stars on the European flag. See the correct stars on the French stamp.(AUSTRIA - 1969)

Inversion or not ?Seems an inverted Nazi-cross, but ...the blus swastika is a symbol a goor fortune in Finland, going back to 1918.(EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 1977)

Inverted shield.Series of 12 stamps, 8 with an horizontal design, 4 with a vertical design. The Rumenian coat-of-arms is shown correctly on het vertical design, but the small central shield is inverted on the horizontal design.(ROMANIA - 1927)

Strange mirrorThe image in the mirror looks to the wrong direction(GERMANY - 1963)

InvertedInverted center piece(SOMALIA - 1903)

Reversed map.The map in the circle is reversed. Wheb the stamp itself is reversed, the map appears correctly.(HUNGARY - )

Inverted portraitOne of those two stamps has tot be a mirror representation of a portrait of Pope Pius XII(VATICAN - 1940)

Wrong sideThe street signs were first designed at the wrong side of te road, the stamp was corrected.(NIGERIA - 1973)

Just in timeThe announcement leaflet showed a stamp with this statue facing right. The Post Office was forced to correct the stamp design before it was put on the market.(BELGIUM - 1989)

Wrong flagsThe Belgian and French flags are inverted, and the central image is missing on the Portuguese flag.(PORTUGAL - 1989)

Wrong sideThe projectionist stands at the left side of the film projector, instead of the normal right side.(CHINA - 1987)

Wrong side.The piano lid opens right on the stamp, on all pianos they open left. (CUBA - 1974)

InvertedInverted portrait, compare with picture.(DAHOMEY - 1974)

InversionInverted statue of Liberty, (GAMBIA - 1986)

InvertedInverted representation of this accordion (FRANCE - 1990)

Inverted pictureIt is strange that two left-handed people are shown on the same stamp. The most probable explanation : the original picture was inverted when the stamp was designed.(FRANCE - 1948)

Inverted picture ?Why represent a lefthanded handball player ? Probably because the original picture was inverted on the stamp ?(FRANCE - 1970)

Three errorsThe moon map is showed upside down, UHR after the landing time is not necessary as there is already an H after 22, an the landing happened two days before full moon, not after full moon as depicted.(GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 1959)

Inverted signThe seeman is signalling a letter that cannot be found in the flagbooks. In mirror however, it suddently stands for a I or 9.(GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 1962)

Inverted statueAt the left, the statue of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the Capitlole in Rome is shown inversed.(FRANCE - 1963)

InversionThe view on the maximum card shows that the stamp represents an inverted view of the city St Tropez. (FRANCE - 2007)

Upside downFloat of the fishing line is pictured upside down.(FRANCE - 1999)

InversionThis painting from Rubens is showed reversed on the stamp.(LIECHTENSTEIN - 1949)

InvertedInverted representation on the stamp of the original picture.(FRANCE - 1937)

Upside downThe message on the banner 'ADVANCE AUSTRALIA' is written upside down.(NEW SOUTH WALES - 1890)

InversionThe statue has been inverted on the stamp.(BELGIUM - 1914)

Missing shadowWith this low sun in the back, a shadow in front of the legs would have been appropriate.(NYASALAND - 1934)

InversionInverted representation of the original painting. Correct on a stamp from Peru.(SPAIN - 1966)

Many problemsDue to a paper shortage, old military maps were use to print stamps on their backside. But a lot of things went wrong : the stamps were printed on the already printed side of a military map, with an inverted black centerpiece.(UCRAINA - 1920)

InversionEntrance of the Versailles castel inverted on the stamp.(SAINT TOME AND PRINCIPE - 1991)

InversionView of Munchen on the stamp is inverted.(LIBERIA - 1972)

InversionThe 'Little Navigator' has been reversed from the original statue in the New Bedford Museum, and is therefore, performing an impossible function, holding the octant in his left hand. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1986)

Upside downPostcard cancelled at the post museum of Washington, with an upside down obliteration.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1998)

InversionInverted statue : Olive branch in left instead of right hand.(GREECE - 1997)

Inverted and correctedStamp was printed inverted on a sheet. Was corrected afterwards.(SAINT VINCENT - 1987)

InversionThe portrait of Benjamin Franklin was inverted on this stamp.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1947)

InversionAs can be seen at his haircut, this is an inverted representation of Prince Charles. And Princes Diana was pourly pictured. (BENIN - )

Inverted JennyReprint by the US Post Office of the famous Inverted Jenny stamp. 95 years ago just one sheet of this stamp was sold before a customer identified the error.(UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 2013)

Inverted portraitInverted portrait. Was corrected on other stamps that were issued afterwards.(HONDURAS - 1891)

Wrong musicThe music shown on the piano is a pure invented, and certainly not composed by Beethoven.(GABON - 1977)

InversionInverted view, the steering bar is at the wrong side of this locomotive. (POLAND - 1976)

InvertedInverted 12 in postmark(IRAN - 1973)

Inverted and wrongInverted FA-key and the two first sharps are FA and DO, not LA and MI(GERMANY - 2003)